Live Game Trick - Exposing Hole Card to give false information -

I play at a fairly week .25/.50 NL home game. There are a few players there (myself included) who know the math at poker, and have shown excellent results at the table in the form of proper mathmatical plays as well as good reads on the table, etc. One night the three of us proper math players end up in my room, and get a short-handed game going.

Everybody bought in for $40, and we kept the format at .25/.50, and the cards hit the air. It was obvious this was the real game. We were betting and raising and reraising eachother with crap (which you can't do at the actual game, calling stations), and after a while I wake up with AcAs. I raise preflop, get called by villain.

This particular villain is a good friend of mine, and an excellent player. He started a habit of showing one of his cards (particularly when he's weak, and sometimes to decieve an opponent), and I picked up on it, and will occaisonally do it against him. He called my raise, and we went two players to the flop. JdKd2c. Okay, I rate to be best here, unless he's spiked a set. I bet, he raises, I call.

Turn: Ad. I check, he bets. I figure him for a made flush. "Yep. There's my trouble card." I flip over one of my aces, showing a pair. I call.

River: Kc. I check, he bets. "I can't believe you got that king. . . I raise." He shoves all in. I flip over my other ace, and add his stack to mine.

One of my favorite things about live games is your ability to give little bits of information to your opponents, at your discretion. You can seem weaker than you are. And unless he figured me for AK, or AA, he was sure to win. So by exposing a portion of my hand, I made him think he was sure to have the best of it. He probably figured me for AJ or AQ, but I was quite happy to have him pay me off.

Do any other live game players use or know of any similar tricks?

Sometimes I'll expose my hand to get a read on a player when I'm sure they just sucked out on me. Normally an amatuer player will give an honest reaction when they see they just beat my AA by hitting their gutshot, and I can safely fold.

Just came to mind and I'd thought I'd see if anybody has similar experiences, comments.

WG

Do it all the time in my home game. I would never be ballsy enough to try it in a casino or tourney, I wouldn't want to give away all of my tricks.

I've got into a habit of calling out seven deuce online when i have a four flush and 72s. Its worked really well so far in freerolls lol...

I did it in real life first though but not with 72, my friends got confused about a hand or something, idk what happened and they wanted to reshuffle (They arent very good, we don't play for money.) and i wanted to just fix it and play as i had AsJs in the BB. I ended up telling them as much and they're like >.< we dont believe you. So we end up playing the hand, I get a four flush on the flop but no pairs or anything. My buddy raises and i call and he laughs and says 'i knew you didnt have it.' I insisted I did and we went to the turn. It was a spade, he raised even bigger this time and i realized he must really have something here if he thinks I dont have AJ and am calling him with something. I reraise, i know how bad he is, he wont see the flush possibility if he has something like trips or two pair. The river was inconsequential, he raised, i went all in, and he called. I turned over AJ and laughed for awhile as i added his chips to my stack and he went to go play COD MW2 with the other people who were out.

I believe it was at the IP in Biloxi, I got dealt a 72s and flopped a four flush and middle pair - against a short-stack (doh!). He ends up all-in, and at this particular table when you call an all-in bet you are both expected to open your hand.

"Well, I'm going to be embarrased, but I have a lot of outs." The dealer appeared to be the only one to get the joke, as he laughed and patted the table. I called and whiffed.

He looked like an off-duty airman. I shoulda chatted him up to find out where the good tables in Biloxi were. Maybe next time.